Best Diego Poems

Sailors go to the San Diego zoo,

looking for pretty girls who go there too.

Sugared monkeys a good time,

always tossing plenty grime,

by reaching behind and throwing at you!



* For Zany Zoo contest...

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Invasion of tears on a lonely street
I crash spheres of sadness that burst with a sigh
There's no one to tear me apart I can meet?
..a Lexus is lost and the driver is shy...

The freezing orchestra plays in my head
Police sirens as one play with my...

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Diego Rivera’s Flower Carrier

My load to carry is backbreaking.
But this I must do to feed my family.
On the ground, on all fours, praying;
For fairness in barter and my return safely,
In this capitalist enterprise, I am engaging.

My basket is laden to overflowing the brim;
Of the most...

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Here begins a series of Burns stanzas
commemorating the Catholic Missions found in Old California along "El Camino Real", The King's Highway. The rhyme scheme is
aaabab and the meter is trochee.
Lines "a" are tetrameter lines and lines "b" are dimeter lines.


California's oldest mission.
Shrine provides appreciation,
viewing proselytization.
Converts,...

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(To Greg)

I have a friend who’s been in my life, for such a very long time.
As I remember, 1980 was the year. The ladder of success, I wanted to climb.

I was almost out of college. Through the Travel Agency ads I hunted.
And then I answered...

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Apricot nectar, I licked from her lips,
suckled the dew like honey
from melon ripe breast
and in time did savor
the heady heavenly flavor
of passion's fruit in all the rest
and night birds
beyond the window

...sang a new song....

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Diego Maradona, I never knew you,
but you were from my generation,
only five years younger than I.
How young to have to die! How young to me it seems!
You – who were one of the greatest of the greats!
You – who controlled the football; you were its...

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the naughty rascal of Naples has died
he was the greatest football player in history
a timeless icon
and although he was a flawed human
he is venerated like a demigod
people took to the streets to mourn his passing
weeping and throwing kisses at his 20 foot mural
a...

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It is the third largest city in California.
It lies just north of the border from Tijuana.
This is a nice big town where many a tourist stays.
The municipality is home to the Chargers and Padres.
The weather is warm and sunny, and hardly every raining.
It is where...

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do not blink your eyes if you want to see,
an amazing guy doing his magic with ball,
flash of blue and white jersey on ground,
as he races past falling opposite numbers,
to launch the ball in to the net for a win!
He raises his arm and runs...

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San Diego
Written: by Tom Wright
5/20/2016
 
My mind is a pool brimming with thoughts,
Some exist in undisturbed corners as dust bunnies 
In places where eyes can’t behold;

Seeing and hearing things are thought activators,
Often fetching me to long ago times,
To a place or person long since forgotten,...

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Ekphrasis on, The Spinners
(Las Hilanderas) artist, Diego Velazquez

 

colors, fabric missing painter's glaze

     spun within moonbeam's glow

threads entangled in beautiful gaze

majestic, with heart-sought truth in tow

 

by mortal flesh and heart-sights thus sewn

     born-  sky, ...

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She was next to me, She was real. How could this be? She so long the substance of my most hopeful daydreams. Physically so far away, but residing in my heart everyday. Could she be mine for more than this weekend? Only if fate smiled...

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Autumn is a time in the spirit of a man 
     When he walks down the beach
      And get chilled from the sand. 
On misty mornings can't but walk from my home 
   ...

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FIX THE STREETS

Fix the streets.
One day the people will rebel
and stop paying taxes.

Fix the streets.
No one will want to live 
here in San Diego.

Fix the streets.
One day the people
will revolt.

Fix the streets.
This is not the time
to put up with crooked politicians.

Fix the streets.
Wealthy people won't...

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